GE General Counsel Glynn D. Key Named to Advisory Board of the Wharton School’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership
October 23, 2014
GE and Wharton’s IGEL to Host a Conference on the Energy/Water Nexus in the Oil and Gas Sector
TREVOSE, PA.—October 23, 2014—GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that Glynn D. Key was named to the advisory board of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL).
As general counsel, Key serves as the chief legal and compliance officer for water and process technologies for GE Power & Water. In this role, her global team provides support for a broad water treatment portfolio that includes chemicals, technology, heavy equipment, services and large-scale capital projects in 130 countries and for approximately 7,500 employees.
The Wharton-led, University of Pennsylvania-wide initiative promotes knowledge for business sustainability through world-class research, transformative teaching and constructive dialogue between top alumni, academic, corporate, government and non-government organizations. IGEL is a hub for business and sustainability, connecting and leveraging academic capital at the university to help business leaders of today and tomorrow create more sustainable industries.
Prior to joining GE, Key was a partner in the corporate department at WilmerHale, a top legal firm that maintains offices in 12 cities across the United States and around the world. From 1993 to 1996, she served in the first Clinton administration at the U.S. Department of the Interior as counselor to Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt. At the department, she was the lead negotiator of the $700 million groundbreaking Everglades restoration settlement among environmentalists, local Native American tribes, the farming industry and the federal and state governments. Key began her legal career as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia.
Active in the community, Key serves on the governing council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs—a think tank devoted to the study of U.S. national governmental institutions, policies and programs—and the board of trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. She has published many articles, including “The Global Business of Law” in the Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal in March 2012.
GE and IGEL Conference on the Energy/Water Nexus in Oil & Gas
Additionally, GE also announced that on October 29 IGEL and GE will host a conference, “Resource Revolution: The Energy/Water Nexus in Oil & Gas,” in Philadelphia. The conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges associated with the dynamic transformation of the global oil and gas sectors. Water scarcity, resiliency and wastewater quality are serious issues, and as the energy marketplace continues to rapidly evolve, significant resource investment in water is critical.
Heiner Markhoff, president and CEO—water and process technologies for GE Power & Water, will give a welcome address followed by a presentation from Paul Reig on the World Resource Institute’s report “Global Shale Development: Water Availability & Business Risks.” The conference will feature two panel sessions: "Power, Promise and Peril: Policy and Regulation in Oil & Gas" and "Accelerating and Sustaining the Water/Energy Ecosystem through Innovation." The program also will feature a Q&A session with Mark Brownstein, associate vice president of the U.S. Climate & Energy Program, Environmental Defense Fund.
About the Wharton School
Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. With a broad global community and one of the most published business school faculties, Wharton creates economic and social value around the world. The School has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA and doctoral students; more than 9,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and a powerful alumni network of 92,000 graduates.
About GE
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About GE Power & Water
GE Power & Water provides customers with a broad array of power generation, energy delivery and water process technologies to solve their challenges locally. Power & Water works in all areas of the energy industry including renewable resources such as wind and solar; biogas and alternative fuels; and coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy. The business also develops advanced technologies to help solve the world’s most complex challenges related to water availability and quality. Power & Water’s six business units include Distributed Power, Nuclear Energy, Power Generation Products, Power Generation Services, Renewable Energy and Water & Process Technologies. Headquartered in Schenectady, N.Y., Power & Water is GE’s largest industrial business.
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